Re: AFL Rd 21 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Reply #130 –
Accuracy and outcomes won't improve with distance and angle.
If either Charlie or Harry are "Home Alone" while the other roams D50 or rucks they are against 2 or 3 permanent defenders, it's pointless fans complaining they aren't kicking bags of goals because the root cause is obvious.
Expecting them to maintain high levels of accuracy out beyond 50m and in many cases from the boundary is ridiculous.
If you want them to mark the high ball closer to goal you have to generate one on one contests, you don't get that by leaving them alone against 2 or 3.
If you want them to mark on the lead inside F50 you have to create space, you do that by having a 2nd genuine marking option drawing defenders and creating space, not by having the other genuine marking options watching on from 80m away!
If you went to Steven May and Jake Lever before a game against us, and said we will make sure that one of Charlie or Harry are 80m away every time the ball heads into our zone, they'd say, "Thank-you very much kind Sir for all your assistance!"
We have two genuine Coleman Medallists, and we are basically ruling a line through one or the other pretty much every other F50 entry, it's sheer stupidity.
We are doing this to ourselves!